Pudu off to new homes...

30/11/2018

Two young Pudu, the World's smallest species of deer, born at Hamerton Zoo Park are moving to Zoos in Europe. Today, our eldest young male born in 2017 has been sent to Wuppertal Zoo in Germany to form a new breeding pair with a female born there. His sister will soon go to Reserve Zoologique de Calviac in France. Pudu, which are officially classed as an endangered species, are regularly bred at Hamerton and our young animals are now breeding at many other zoos. These moves are all made as part of the EEP, a European wide breeding programme set up to preserve rare species by ensuring the best animals make up the breeding stock.